getIncomeStatementsBulk
The Bulk Income Statement API allows users to retrieve detailed income statement data in bulk. This API is designed for large-scale data analysis, providing comprehensive insights into a company's financial performance, including revenue, gross profit, expenses, and net income.
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What getIncomeStatementsBulk does on Financial Modeling Prep
AI agents call getIncomeStatementsBulk to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
year | string | — | Year (e.g., 2023) |
period | string | — | Period (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, FY) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why getIncomeStatementsBulk is rated Low
This tool retrieves and queries publicly available or licensed financial statement data in bulk. It does not create, modify, delete, or execute any operations. While the data is financial in nature, the tool itself performs no financial transactions, movements of money, or commitments. The primary risk is unauthorized data access, not financial harm, making it a Read classification with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getIncomeStatementsBulk' and description 'retrieve detailed income statement data' indicate data retrieval with no modification.
Risk signalsBulk/mass operation — affects multiple targets
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs getIncomeStatementsBulk safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Financial Modeling Prep, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For getIncomeStatementsBulk, this is the rule to start with:
getIncomeStatementsBulk is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Financial Modeling Prep, apply this rule, and every getIncomeStatementsBulk call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getIncomeStatementsBulk
The Bulk Income Statement API allows users to retrieve detailed income statement data in bulk. This API is designed for large-scale data analysis, providing comprehensive insights into a company's financial performance, including revenue, gross profit, expenses, and net income. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
getIncomeStatementsBulk accepts 2 parameters: year, period. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getIncomeStatementsBulk: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Financial Modeling Prep. Nothing to install.
getIncomeStatementsBulk is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the getIncomeStatementsBulk rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for getIncomeStatementsBulk. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
getIncomeStatementsBulk is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server (cfocoder/financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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